Blazing Star O.T.O. Oakland CA
This is a panel discussion on the decriminalization of sex work and the threat of laws like FOSTA-SESTA on the liberties of consenting adults. The panel features sex work activist Carol Leight (aka Scarlot Harlot), kink educator and owner of Wicked Grounds Miriam Green, and erotic services provider and libertarian activist Starchild.
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^^^^^ Do you agree with the Catharine A. MacKinnon segment in the above video?
Her's is a kind of feminism, sort of. But there are also all sorts of other kinds of feminism, like those of the women in the video and conference.
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Mostly as long as it is all adults, there aren't anymore en forcible laws against visual porn.
Some practitioners don't want to be helped out of anything. They are perfectly happy doing what they do. Some feminists see prostitution as a basic civil right.
Trafficking may occur sometimes, but abuses like that occur in other realms too.
The reason for the focus on Trafficking is that that is what people who object to prostitution have advanced. They are trying to make the argument that women cannot consent to prostitution.
Always when it comes to prostitution, the issue has been trying to establish that someone is a victim, to justify continued criminalization. The Trafficking arguments do that. In conservative jurisdictions, they make the sex worker out to be a criminal and social menace. In liberal jurisdictions they make the sex worker out to be a victim. Trafficking is one of the ways which they do this.
Even though I do not go along with the Libertarian Party, with reason magazine, or with the O.T.O. and Thelema, I still say that the OP video is good.
Here are some other videos:
Mostly as long as it is all adults, there aren't anymore en forcible laws against visual porn.
Some practitioners don't want to be helped out of anything. They are perfectly happy doing what they do. Some feminists see prostitution as a basic civil right.
Trafficking may occur sometimes, but abuses like that occur in other realms too.
The reason for the focus on Trafficking is that that is what people who object to prostitution have advanced. They are trying to make the argument that women cannot consent to prostitution.
Always when it comes to prostitution, the issue has been trying to establish that someone is a victim, to justify continued criminalization. The Trafficking arguments do that. In conservative jurisdictions, they make the sex worker out to be a criminal and social menace. In liberal jurisdictions they make the sex worker out to be a victim. Trafficking is one of the ways which they do this.
Even though I do not go along with the Libertarian Party, with reason magazine, or with the O.T.O. and Thelema, I still say that the OP video is good.
Here are some other videos:
Mostly as long as it is all adults, there aren't anymore en forcible laws against visual porn.
Some practitioners don't want to be helped out of anything. They are perfectly happy doing what they do. Some feminists see prostitution as a basic civil right.
Trafficking may occur sometimes, but abuses like that occur in other realms too.
The reason for the focus on Trafficking is that that is what people who object to prostitution have advanced. They are trying to make the argument that women cannot consent to prostitution.
Always when it comes to prostitution, the issue has been trying to establish that someone is a victim, to justify continued criminalization. The Trafficking arguments do that. In conservative jurisdictions, they make the sex worker out to be a criminal and social menace. In liberal jurisdictions they make the sex worker out to be a victim. Trafficking is one of the ways which they do this.
Even though I do not go along with the Libertarian Party, with reason magazine, or with the O.T.O. and Thelema, I still say that the OP video is good.
Here are some other videos:
As far as happy hookers, you just have to listen to them.
What public interest is there in still keeping prostitution crimnalized?
SJG
Well most people believe that as long as there is consent, then their is nothing wrong.
The Trafficking issue seems to have been invented just to try and say that even when it looks like there is consent, there really isn't.
Lots of migratory workers on this planet. But the trafficking issue is always being aimed at female sex workers.
Factors that cause prostitution, a lot of it is just the limited types of career options, and then just the fact that many want to do that.
LE have never done anything at all to address any of these issues, nor will they.
Ask these guys who session at that most famous place in Atlanta, if those girls are Happy Hookers?
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Yes, but people feel that adults should have the right to consent to such. You see girls in strip clubs, ones who could be labeled as hookers. Do they seem unduly opressed, aren't they Happy Hookers.
All kind of Labor Trafficking, but most types you never hear any objection to. The focus is only on Sex Trafficking, and by those who object to sex work.
Used to be that the puritanical school of feminism focused on "porn" as consensual exploitation and abuse.
Now that the Internet has made visual porn quite normative, hard to make that argument anymore. So now they talk about Trafficking, the next form of consensual exploitation to rally against.
SJG
Porn is not normative. Who cares. Everyone knows that strip clubs start off in territory which is not normative.
The best of our girls were the ones I have called, "The Beloved Latina Escorts". I don't know that they ever worked in a low mileage club. Their preference was for FS. When the club got busted, they brought their own mini-van for the parking lot. These girls had no dealing with pimps. But they did line up and deliver on all the OTC they could. They were the happiest of the happiest. It was just the way they were.
Women have the right to consent.
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Earth, Wind & Fire (7/16) - Reason youtube.com
There is no enforcement of labor law against prostitution. But their is still enforcement of the prostitution law. Many want that enforcement to stop, starting with many active prostitutes.
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bayswan.org
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